Pakistan has launched "strikes" against militant bases in Afghanistan, hours after the army said it had found links that terrorists from across the border were behind a suicide bombing.
The terror attack at the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar killed 88 people.
Pakistan claimed the attack was planned in militant sanctuaries in Afghanistan. This can renew hostility between Kabul and Islamabad.
4 camps of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar terror group were targeted in the strikes across the border of Pakistan's Khyber and Mohmand tribal agencies.
Security forces neutralised several training centres of Omar Khalid Khorasani, the head of the Jamaat-ul Ahrar group.
Islamabad has often warned Kabul authorities to prevent the use of their soil for terror activities in Pakistan.
Pakistan army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa told General John Nicholson, the top US commander in Afghanistan, that terrorist activities test current cross-border restraint".
General Qamar Javed Bajwa- Born: 11 November 1960 Karachi, Pakistan
- Unit: Baloch Regiment
- Service/branch: Pakistan Army
- Education: National Defence University, Pakistan, Canadian Army Command and Staff College, Naval Postgraduate School
